Word: sound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis of the franc, like most currency crises, was a thing of the mind. The economy of France is basically healthy: its balance of payments is sound; its unemployment rate is fairly low; productivity has been rising at a reasonable rate. The franc was in peril because enough of those holding it as currency were afraid it would...
...obvious relish for the part can neither overcome nor excuse the peculiar dialect in which his lines are delivered. There is no saying for sure, but, perhaps, a boy from a good neighborhood somewhere in the South trying to imitate a boy from a bad neighborhood in Liverpool could sound as he does. His voice, like Kessler's, is adequate for the demanding part...
...Gone By..., then, is a history of the American film from its genesis through a period of fertile collaborative art (roughly defined as the Silent period) to an eventual corruption, blamed on the shift of power from directors to producers and, most evil, the premature advent of the sound film...
...book is weakest when Brownlow editorializes--the coming of sound after all did not represent a general disintegration of quality for more than four or five years. And the organization by subject leads to the inclusion of material which over-represents Brownlow's personal proclivities regardless of objective importance. For example, "The Curse of Melodrama" degenerates into Brownlow's none-too-enlightened theories about hateful genre succeeding at the expense of blessed naturalism...
...greatest screen comedy. The joy with which they took chances, the willingness to sacrifice themselves, the interest in experimentation makes itself evident throughout the primary source material in the book, as does the sadness of having had these options slowly removed during the late '20's and destroyed when sound arrived...